terrier "Tim," usually a well-behaved and hu- 

 mane dog where house pets are concerned. In 

 this case, however, a moment of excitement evi- 

 dently made him forget his accustomed self-con- 

 trol in the face of temptation, or possibly he also 

 thought that temptation was made to be fallen 

 into and that to flee from it was a sign of weak- 

 ness. However that may be, the consequences 

 of wrong-doing are never confined to the wrong- 

 doer, which must be the reason why wrong-doing 

 is wrong, and the bird was killed. The little 

 " Princess " demanded an immediate funeral ; but 

 as bedtime was near this was deferred to the next 

 day, when the obsequies were performed and the 

 body was consigned to earth under the beech-tree, 

 close to the grave of a departed specimen of the 

 offending canine race. The selection of an epi- 

 taph for the tombstone, which consisted of a large 

 wooden label, next became a subject of anxious 

 deliberation, the final solution resulting in the 

 eloquent and original inscription : " Poor Pigeon 

 Naughty Timmy." 



A remarkable incident/ which I must relate, 

 occurred among these pigeons mostly white fan- 

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